We are muddled into war.
Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, ‘Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people, maybe we could dilute it down and spray it on our crops to deal with pests.’
Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
‘Dare to Discipline’ was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that context, but the principles of child rearing have not changed.
Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.
Being a son of the South puts you in a different position when it comes to the Confederate flag. It means something entirely different to the people who have ancestors who fought in the Civil War on the south side of the Mason-Dixon line.
Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.
The ‘war on terror’ has created a culture of fear in America.
To secure peace is to prepare for war.
There is only one principle of war and that’s this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain’t lookin’.
War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.
My ancestors include Monahwee, who was one of the leaders in the Red Stick War, which was the largest Indian uprising in history, and Osceola, who refused to sign a treaty with the United States.
In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
It’s a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.
Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.
This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
‘Undertones of War’ by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book.
War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It’s the failure of diplomacy. ‘War and Peace,’ ‘A Farewell to Arms,’ ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls.’ Those are some of the greatest tragedies.
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war.
I was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War.
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you’re not a good soldier.
